USU receives funds for SARE Center

LOGAN -- Utah State University’s Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Center has received $4.15 million to help farmers and ranchers in several western states, and Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Numerous research projects in the Pacific Protectorates are led by Phil Rasmussen, director of the Western SARE Center and professor in USU’s Department of Plants, Soils and Climate.

In the 16 years that Rasmussen has administered the Western Region SARE Center, USU has received more than $67 million to identify and manage more than 1,200 research and extension projects in the region.